Child and Family Teaming (CFT) Overview

This half-day training is designed to orient participants to the Child and Family Team (CFT) meeting process. This training is for individuals who may participate in CFT meetings or need to know basic information about CFT meetings due to intersecting with child welfare, juvenile probation and/or behavioral health systems. This includes case-carrying child welfare social workers, probation officers, community partners or others. Participants will be introduced to basic concepts related to CFT meetings using the California Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) as the foundational guide for practice.

Topics include:

The importance of CFT meetings in practice and within Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) legislation and ICPM
Child and Family Teaming and CFT meeting definitions, description and defining values
Definition of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and how it enhances and supports the CFT
CFT meeting structure

CEUs

0.3

Section Number

243SSA804

Instruction Method

Online class

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Section Schedule

Thur., Feb 6th, 2025, 9:00am to 12:00pm

Fees

Instructors

Nicole Bradford

Nicole Bradford, M.S.W., has spent over a decade working with vulnerable children and families as a child welfare social worker and supervisor in one of the few frontier counties in California. She has expertise in child abuse prevention and differential response, referral intake and emergency response investigations, and Resource Family Approval. Bradford has significant experience working in child abuse investigations, forensic interviewing of abuse victims and critical incidents related to child death investigations. She extends this trauma-informed lens administratively in her work to recruit, retain and build a competent child welfare workforce.